Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1349-100, Jesse Farmer, Continental Va. Residence Of Heirs In 1828

SERVICE
Continental
★ Farmer, Jesse
NUMBER
B.L.Wt. 1349-100
Issued Aug. 4-1848
His residence at time in 1828.
CONTENTS

Leroy Jordan
STATE of Virginia At a Court held for Bedford
County, 28 th July 1828.
Satisfactory evidence was adduced in Court, to prove that John Harmer (Sally Lindsay & Nancy Hopkins are) Pleasant Harmer  the  heirs and legal male heirs, at law in fee to William Harmer & wife Harmer late a soldier in the  Armstrong's Corps Regiment of  United States Infantry .
I, Guillemus A. Wingfield Deputy Clerk of the County Court, do certify, that the above evidence is taken from the Records in my Office. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my official Seal, this 29 th day of July 1828
G.A. Wingfield Clerk
The above form will answer for the following States: viz. Virginia, North-Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and other Western States.

August the 10 th 1898 Received of the Secretary of war a United States Military Land Warrant due to the Heirs of Jesse Hammer No 1349 Leroy Jordan attorney

No. 1348
No. 1349
Mr. Farmer & other heirs of Nathan Farmer & Jesse Farmer Armands by mail to Leroy Jordan Ga.

DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
Regulations for the heirs of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, who were slain by the enemy, or who have died since the war, and have not received land from the United States.
By an Act of Congress, of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided, that the Officers and Soldiers who engaged for, and continued to serve during the war, or until discharged by Congress, and the heirs of such Officers and Soldiers as shall be slain by the enemy, shall receive land in proportion to their rank.
N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, or who died of sickness, fatigue, or casualty, are not entitled to land from the United States.
The following declaration (and enclosed blank form of heirship) must be filled up and signed by the proper authorities:
State of Virginia } County of Bedford }
I, John Farmer one of the heirs at law of Joseph Nathan Farmer dec'd do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that Joseph Nathan Farmer did enlist in 1780, for the term of during the war, and served in the regiment  Company under the command of Colonel  General Arnyoud of the line unknown line; and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the end of the war .
I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to Joseph Nathan Farmer on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever: therefore,
Know all men by these presents, that I, John Farmer aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Henry Townsend of Bedford County to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
John Farmer
Attest,
William Crump
Personally appeared the above named John Farmer subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
Attest,
William Crump
Chas Whitley
Justice of the Peace.
In testimony that the abovewritten Charles Whitley was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of Virginia at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at Liberty this 29 th day of Feb. 18 28 .
R. C. Mitchell
C. Clerk, &c.

July 2, 1935
Please furnish abstract of Rev. Soldier Jesse Farmer # B Z Wt 1349-100
Z R Farmer 5206-15 th st NW City

July 6, 1935
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Mr. Z. R. Farmer 5206 - 13th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Jesse Farmer, B.L. Wt. 1349-100 Nathan Farmer, B.L. Wt. 1348-100
BA-J/MSHF:MLB
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your personal request for the Revolutionary War record of Jesse Farmer, of Virginia.
The data which follow were obtained from the claim for bounty land based upon service of Jesse Farmer and Nathan Farmer in the Revolutionary War.
Jesse Farmer and Nathan Farmer enlisted, place not stated, in 1780, served in Armand's Corps and remained in service to the end of the war.
July 28, 1828, evidence was furnished in the Court of Bedford County, Virginia, that John Farmer, Pleasant Farmer, Polly Lindsay and Nancy Hopkins were the sole heirs at law of Nathan Farmer and Jesse Farmer. Their relationship to those soldiers is not stated.
July 29, 1828, John Farmer applied in Bedford County, Virginia, for bounty land which was due him and the other heirs named above, on account of service of Jesse Farmer and Nathan Farmer in the Revolutionary War.
August 4, 1828, bounty land warrant No. 1348 was issued on account of service of Nathan Farmer, and warrant No. 1349 was issued on account of service of Jesse Farmer; each warrant was for one hundred acres and was issued in behalf of John Farmer and the other heirs. The residences of the heirs are not shown, nor are their ages given. This office has no further information in regard to Jesse or Nathan Farmer.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator